World's Fastest

The new Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster becomes the latest contender in the race to a 300-mph speed record. The 1,817-hp Roadster is just as ready to navigate its way to 300 as the Venom F5 Coupe, only with a little more noise and breeze in the cabin.

The InMotion V13 Challenger aims to be the fastest, most powerful electric unicycle in the world. Capable of putting out a peak of 10,000 watts and powering up to speeds of 87 mph (140 km/h), the V13 is more explosive than many electric two-wheelers.

If you own the world's fastest car, you might as well open the throttle now and then. Dentist-cum-entrepreneur Dr. Larry Caplan has stuck a gumboot into his SSC Tuatara and recorded a top speed just shy of the fabled 300 mph mark – on a short track.

Bombardier has taken the covers off its new Global 8000 business jet, which the company claims is the world’s fastest and longest-range production business jet, combining a luxury cabin with a top speed of 623 knots and a range of 8,000 nm.

Researchers have now developed the fastest logic gates ever created, by zapping graphene and gold with laser pulses. The new logic gates are a million times faster than those in existing computers, demonstrating the viability of “lightwave electronics.”

An autonomous race team from the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) has set a new land speed record for driverless cars, recording a two-way average of 192.2 mph (309.3 km/h) over a flying kilometer on a space shuttle airstrip at the Kennedy Space Center.

Joby Aviation has continued expanding the envelope on its S4 electric air taxi prototypes, and on Friday the California company registered what it believes is the fastest eVTOL test flight in history, hitting a true airspeed of 205 mph (330 km/h).

Some electric dirtbikes hope to compete with gasoline-burners. The Stark Varg aims to dominate, destroy and humiliate them anywhere it's allowed to line up beside them. This is the most powerful, most extreme electric dirtbike we've ever seen.

Meet Hennessey's first electric: a 2,400-horsepower, six-wheel-drive, hyper-land yacht called Project Deep Space, featuring the world's biggest gull-wing door and a 4-seat, diamond-layout cabin that's ... shall we say, likely to remain unique!

An aircraft developed by Rolls-Royce to smash the speed record for an all-electric plane reached a maximum speed of 623 km/h (387.4 mph) during its latest round of testing in the UK, which would make it the world's fastest electric vehicle of any kind.

Strap in, petrolheads, I promise you've never seen a crankshaft remotely like this one before. The spec sheet and bizarrely organic-looking design of this 3-D printed Greek widowmaker are almost as wild a ride as the 3,000-horsepower beast itself.

A remarkable new battery and ultra-charger combo from Hong Kong's Desten Group claims 400-km electric vehicle top-ups in 4 minutes, 40 seconds, transferring energy at nearly a megawatt without excessive heat and lasting more than 3,000 cycles.